indulging in nostalgia
Posted By Sherry on July 15, 2008
Every once in a while, but not often enough, my photo collections inexplicably appear in my hands, inspiring projects that involve sorting or scanning or filing or printing or uploading—but always sharing! Lately I’ve found delight in digitizing my photos of one particular branch of my family tree and uploading them as albums on Facebook. Since opening a Facebook account I’ve gotten reacquainted with first cousins once removed who agreed to be my Facebook friends. It’s been so much fun reading the comments they’ve posted on pictures they can fully engage in and identify with—some pictures I’ve taken of them as little kids, some pictures of their parents and grandparents. Who’da thought those dozens of years ago when I snapped those pictures on film that I’d be sharing them as digital files via Facebook!
The collateral benefit of sorting through pictures is the pleasure in rediscovery of those that aren’t related to the project but are winners in their own right. Like this series of three pictures of Quinn taken by a friend:
And this picture I took of brother Howard on the day he shaved his beard to prove something to his daughter, Hannah, back in the mid ’90s. We almost don’t recognize him:
Dorothy Barratt took this of Mauri at the pool just before we were married:
And look at this! Taken at our Newberg reception a week after we were married.
That precious newborn now looks like this and was joined by two sisters since.
Beware. There are more!
Beware?? Nonsense - bring ‘em on
Good lands. How come Margene hasn’t changed and I have so drastically??